Alex Madajian dutifully writes in an April 1 CNSNews.com article:
A conservative civil liberties group is suing the University of Louisville (Kentucky) on behalf of a child psychology professor who was demoted, then effectively fired, he says, for his view that young children should not undergo life-altering treatment for gender dysphoria.
The university hired Dr. Allan M. Josephson in 2003 to be the chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology. Since then, the lawsuit contends, he has turned the division around, boosting its national reputation.
But Josephson ran afoul of the University’s LGBT Center in the fall of 2017, when he took part in a panel discussion at The Heritage Foundation on gender dysphoria in young children.
But Madajian presents only one side of the story — that of Josephson and the “civil liberties group” suing on his behalf, the right-wing Alliance Defending Freedom. At one point, he simply repeats how “the lawsuit lays out Josephson’s position” on “young people experiencing gender dysphoria,” framing Josephson’s views as innocuous or mainstream. He does not quote anyone from his university or anyone offering a critique of Josephson’s views — which effectively makes this article little more than an ADF press release.
In fact, Josephson’s views on transgenderism hew so closely to conservative disdain for it that Josephson has worked as a consultant for ADF on transgender issues in the past — something Madajian didn’t report.
Madajian also failed to report that in that Heritage Foundation discussion, Josephson attacked “transgender ideology” — a term, like “gender ideology,” is only used these days by conservatives who think that’s an actual thing that must be opposed.
Indeed, an actual news organization reported that one LGBT advocate pointed out that, contrary to Josephson’s views, “The vast majority of folks who work with transgender adults and youth concur that supporting someone’s decision to transition as early as they are sure about their desire to do it is what can save their lives.”
Once again, the Media Research Center’s “news” division engages in the exact same behavior it attacks when “liberal media” outlets do it.